The WGA Strike and Film Award Shows
by Andre Soares
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association worships movie stars. Granted, so do most U.S. critics’ groups. Just take a look at their list of winners each year. That said, Globers and Globettes seem to go further in their starstruckness than just about anybody else. Megastars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, for two, received Golden Globe nominations this year for their performances in Mike Nichols‘ Charlie Wilson’s War.
Pete Hammond discusses the potential effects of the WGA strike on award shows at The Envelope:
"Since the [Golden] Globes are all about Hollywood glamour, a gala that mixes movie superstars with big TV names and draws a huge viewing audience, will those viewers be content to watch if the stars boycott, making the biggest names on the red carpet Jeff Zucker and Les Moonves?
"The spectacle of watching the writers picketing a show produced by other writers (the HFPA is comprised of nearly 90 Hollywood-based foreign journalists) is one of many ironies in this strike-challenged awards season.
"Increasingly, many in the industry are questioning the wisdom and fairness of the WGA’s waiver policy, which grants a free ride to SAG’s show, the Independent Spirit Awards and others while pointedly denying the same thing to the Globes and, most likely, the Oscars."
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2007
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